YumPlants

Geographer/Filmmaker. Exploring life support systems, climate crisis mass migration and animal rights/plant-based/speciesism GIS applications.

[YumPlants @Biogeographer]

Please checkout/share #ConnectingTheTracks FILM
http://t.co/P2DCFybwXX … #EarthDay #NorthernJaguarProject #arborday

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

They're walling off the last place in America where jaguars still walk free. 🐆

In November, a jaguar crossed into Arizona. Researchers named him Cinco—the fifth jaguar documented here in 15 years.

He found the San Rafael Valley—the last open wildlife corridor on the entire U.S.-Mexico border. The last place jaguars can still move between two countries.

They're building a wall through it.

30 feet of steel. 27 miles. The administration waived the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and NEPA to build it faster.

No environmental review. No mitigation. Just a $309 million contract and a signature that erased every law protecting this land.

Border crossings here are down 78%. Wildlife experts say almost no one crosses in this valley. The jaguars cross more than the people do.

86% of jaguar habitat along this border is already walled off. The San Rafael Valley is what's left.

Cinco crossed right through the construction zone.

Who gets to decide that the last jaguar corridor is the right place for a wall? 🐆

#DemsUnited

[Andrew deCoriolis @AndrewRdeC]

Factory farming is a hotbed for diseases. Researchers just found that a virus common in farmed shrimp can cause eye infections and blindness in humans. Raising billions of animals in crowded, polluted conditions causes spillover and makes us sick

https://t.co/AwHaifHQ99

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

As an ecologist, I think this is cool.

We’ve lost so many native insects, yet this one has returned against all odds. Look at them pollinate!

Human infections are extremely rare. South America is fine. It’s the meat industry that wants them extinct. Don’t buy into the hysteria.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel dropped a bomb on Mona’s home in Mansouri, South Lebanon, today.

Mona is not a fighter.

She is an environmental activist who dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles.

Because of Israel, Mona is now fighting for her life in a hospital bed.

[Wilderness Watch @WildernessWatch]

Or lawsuit argues that the killing of predators like coyotes, wolves, bears, and mountain lions in wilderness areas violates the 1964 Wilderness Act — even if the elimination of predators is meant to protect livestock.

https://t.co/hCZfPBet9o

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: DHS just gutted every relevant environmental law to build border barriers thru Big Bend National Park, where virtually nobody crosses the border.

This is a breathtaking attack on national park protections everywhere. If they do it here, they'll try to do it everywhere.

[Sky Island Alliance @Sky_Islands]

Skunks are often noted for their own smell, but they're actually expert sniffers too. As you can see in this video from our #BorderWildlifeStudy, this spotted skunk is well aware of the other animals that have passed through this wildlife opening in the border wall.

[azcentral @azcentral]

Construction of the Trump border wall threatens cultural and religious sites in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. https://t.co/aTs367OpkH

[UFW Foundation @ufwfoundation]

@NewsHour The biggest scam in the agricultural industry is making small farmers believe farm workers are the problem, not Big Ag corporations.

[In Defense Of Animals @IDAUSA]

Anti-whaling activists are facing criminal charges for standing between vulnerable fin #whales and #Iceland’s harpoons. Protesting cruelty should not be punished. Commercial #whaling should be ended for good.
✍️ https://t.co/WtaTOlaQtH
RT & https://t.co/YmjUjttpHz
#StopWhaling

[PETA @peta]

Some priests are claiming bullfighting isn't violent & even comparing it to the death of Christ 💔 In the ring, bulls are stabbed & killed in front of crowds, despite Catholic doctrine clearly stating that torturing animals is a sin. There’s nothing Christ-like about bullfights.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

The admin has now awarded $4.3 billion dollars to build border barriers through Big Bend National Park & the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River.

That's enough money to fund the entire National Park Service—all 433 units & 20,000 staff—for almost two years.

But instead, we're gutting funding for America's most popular & trusted government agency (NPS) & handing billions of dollars to contractors so they can permanently scar one of our crown-jewel national parks.

[YumPlants @Biogeographer]

@SenatorBaldwin How is @SenatorBaldwin helping farmers who are switching to focus on growing tree-crops?
https://t.co/BXK7dlBSlL

[Agriculture Fairness Alliance @AgFairness]

Check out what this AFA partner farmer wrote to his House Rep in D.C. #ClimateCrisis #plantbased #plantrich

[YumPlants @Biogeographer]

@GovEvers How is @GovEvers helping farmers who want to move into tree-crops?
https://t.co/BXK7dlBSlL

[Agriculture Fairness Alliance @AgFairness]

Check out what this AFA partner farmer wrote to his House Rep in D.C. #ClimateCrisis #plantbased #plantrich

[YumPlants @Biogeographer]

@GovEvers Can the farmers who are choosing to switch to tree-crops get some assistance please?

https://t.co/BXK7dlBSlL

[Agriculture Fairness Alliance @AgFairness]

Check out what this AFA partner farmer wrote to his House Rep in D.C. #ClimateCrisis #plantbased #plantrich

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

🚨 Breaking news: 3 mule deer have been confirmed crossing California's first-ever wildlife overpass.

The deer, captured on trail camera in late May, didn't wait for the official ribbon-cutting. The $20 million wildlife overpass in Siskiyou County, designed to reduce the staggering number of deer and elk killed on Route 97, was apparently usable enough. The bridge will officially open in fall.

We reached out to the 3 mule deer for comment but have not yet received a response.

Wildlife collisions cost the US about $8 billion a year in vehicle damage, injuries, and human deaths. A well-placed crossing pays for itself in reduced accidents within a decade.

A study of 89 wildlife crossings across North America, Europe, and Australia found they reduced wildlife mortality by up to 90% in well-designed projects.

Fencing is doing half the work. A crossing without funnel fencing leading animals toward it is dramatically less effective. The California project includes 3 miles of 8-foot fencing along Route 97.

California has about 100 wildlife crossings planned over the next decade. This one is the first. The Liberty Canyon overpass over the 101 in LA (currently the largest in the world by area) is set to open in 2026.

[Rep. Adelita Grijalva @Rep_Grijalva]

We know who's calling the shots: Big Oil.

Trump and his administration answer to them while our communities and environment pay the price.

[YumPlants @Biogeographer]

@RepMarkPocan Can farmers who are switching to tree-crops get some assistance please? https://t.co/BXK7dlBSlL

[Agriculture Fairness Alliance @AgFairness]

Check out what this AFA partner farmer wrote to his House Rep in D.C. #ClimateCrisis #plantbased #plantrich

[Voters For Animal Rights @theanimalvoters]

🐙🎉BREAKING NEWS, NEW YORK!🎉🐙

WE DID IT. The NYS Senate just passed our industrial octopus farming ban bill (S7421B) with strong bi-partisan support with a vote of 55-5! This is a major win for our brilliant, sentient ocean friends! 🌊

THANK YOU to our lead sponsor @NYSSenatorMRM and Senate leadership @AndreaSCousins @SenGianaris for getting this done. Please thank them!

New York’s senators heard us loud and clear: Octopus do NOT belong on factory farms. Now onward to the Assembly!

[PETA @peta]

BREAKING: PETA supporters tackled after confronting Pope Leo XIV. They interrupted the Pope’s general audience to urge him to take a clear moral stand against bullfighting before his visit to Spain, where bulls are killed in honor of Catholic saints!

📸 Laura Uffa/Aleda Amarillo